"WBC lightweight champion Edwin Valero (27-0, 27 KO's) showed me that he's the real deal in dispatching the tough Antonio DeMarco (23-1-1, 17 KO's) after 9 rounds at Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. Valero reduced DeMarco, a big puncher in his own right, into a timid lamb as he clubbed him into quitting on his stool after the 9th round...
At a California high school in the early 1980s, there was a star athlete named Lenny Dykstra. He was fast, played with grit and was driven to play Major League Baseball. Dykstra was also a star football player despite being only 5'10" and 165 pounds. His lack of size made him realize that football was temporary, but baseball was something...
Rae Carruth was arrested in 1999 in western Tennessee, where police found him hiding in the trunk of a friend's car a day after he failed to surrender on a murder charge in the shooting death of his girlfriend. It brought an end to a harrowing period in which the star wide receiver had vanished after being charged with orchestrating...
When talking about the biggest busts in sports history, the name Matt Bush comes up quite frequently. He went from top pick to alcoholic jailbird in less than a decade and seemed like he was well on his way to fading into obscurity. But a strange thing happened with Matt, he cleaned up and on May 13, 2016 he made...
He was the darling of the 2012 Olympics. A double amputee competing in track and field with a winning smile and a record of defying the odds. Oscar Pistorious was known as "Blade Runner" and became an international superstar as he won race after race and fought for the opportunity to represent South Africa in the Olympic Games. Pistorious was...